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    No traffic allowed between L2TP/IPsec and LAN

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      alexbueno85
      last edited by

      Hi,

      I'm new to pfSense world and unfortunately due to hardware limitations my router runs version 2.3.5-p2. (it's 32 bits)

      OTOH I'm not new to network world. Maybe rusty... Anyways...

      Recently I created this router to have a VPN, so some suppliers could access our system in some VMs. To avoid software installation and certificates generation, I decided to use L2TP with IPsec.

      I followed Netgate "manual" and not for my surprise I could establish the VPN tunnel. (My ISP might be blocking something, but I can establish it directly connected to the router)

      Both sides can ping each other. LAN is 192.168.1.0/24 and L2TP users 192.168.255.128/25.

      From LAN I can reach L2TP users, so far with no problems. But when I try to reach from L2TP to LAN, traffic response is blocked. Like this:

      Aug 6 18:53:22 	► l2tp0 	192.168.1.102:80		192.168.255.185:52222		TCP:SA
      Aug 6 18:53:22 	► l2tp0 	192.168.1.102:80		192.168.255.185:52221		TCP:SA
      Aug 6 18:53:22 	► l2tp0 	192.168.1.102:80		192.168.255.185:52220		TCP:SA 
      

      But I'm copying some files from 192.168.255.185, using SMB.

      I tried to add a new rule based on this block clicking the + icon and it says "Invalid interface for pass rule: " and nothing else. Sounds reasonable, since it's a virtual interface fo VPN.

      Not to mention it's also blocking response from web either, obviously. (but this is not my priority)

      WAN:
      WAN rules.PNG

      LAN:
      LAN rules.PNG

      L2TP:
      L2TP rules.PNG

      I'm pretty sure I'm missing something, but what?

      Internet from lan doesn't seem ok either, even though it works. Hard to explain, but, for example, I couldn't post pictures here, got server error and from the hotel now it worked.

      I'd really appreciate if someone could help.

      Thanks

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      • humaxoidH
        humaxoid
        last edited by humaxoid

        Bookmark L2TP VPN, Try changing the destination from *, to LAN net.

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          alexbueno85
          last edited by

          Thanks for the idea.

          But my ISP had serious problems with ISAKMP thru their router, so I migrated to OpenVPN.

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